Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-02-07
The Old Home.

1t stands npon the hillside with the tall elms bend
o'er it,
The homestead with the lilacs by the door,
And the quaint old-fashioned garden, gently sleep
ing down before it,
l see it Just as in the days of yore.
I remember how the sunshine fell across the gold
meadows,
Beyond the wooden doorstep, old and worn;
And how the summer cloudIets cast their quickly
feeting shadows
On distant fields of rustling, ripening corn.
In the pleasant roomy kitchen see my father sit
ting,
With leather-covered Bible open wide;
While my sweet-faced mother listens, she lays
away her knitting,
And rocks the old red cradle by her side
Three brown-eyed little children, with tangled
golden tresses,
When evening prayer in simple words is said,
Come cliuging round her neck with loving, soft
resses,
Then merrily go tripping off to bed
0 happy years of childhood, with thoughts so true
and loving,
And sweet and guileless days full of rest
Our old hearts love to linger, after all years Of
rowing,
Anu Grasp Aoiu HieLli y picture 10 uui
Shall we ever in that country the bright and glori
Gus heaven,
Win back the simple innocence and bliss
We knew when, in childhood, in the dear old
home at even,
We received angel mothers goodnight kiss?
Many a man seeks a girl for her pa
value.
A tug is the only thing that has its tows
behind.
Capital is painted blind, but the Boston
deity wears glasses.
There's one trouble with toboggan slide
fun; its all over before you really know
it.
The weather is as changeable as cheap
politician, and as unreliable as seven dol
lar gold watch.
Sam Jones says that a man should be
ninety-five per cent backbone. That don't
leave much cheek.
The editor of the Arizona Howler is full
of wrath because some one has sent him
patent calf-weaner.
Thompson-Suppose a man should call
you liar, what would you do? Jones (hes-
itatingly)-What size man?
An exchange observes: I'VE owe too
much to foreigners" from which we infer
that the editor has not paid his hired girl.
A man and his wife are buried in the
same grave, and the stone bears the in
scription Their warfare is accomplish
ed
writer says that kind words are
never lost" How is it when your wife
wife puts them in a letter and gives them
to you to mail.
4 Chicago clergyman asks: Can a man
be a Christian and at the same time sue
cessful business man. He can if he ad-
vertises largely.
SeXton-''I beg your pardon, sir, but
the services are over" Sleeper-f you'll
build it this mornin' Maria. I won't ask
you agin all winter"
writer says ''SOme people would
rather help stranger than friend" Yes,
and nine times out of ten they will get
more thanks for the help.
Boston woman has written a very
brief letter to a member of congress from
Massachusetts. 1t read as follows s'Ba-
laam's animal spoke-can"t you?"
The name plymouth Rock" is very
appropriately given to breed of hens,
inasmuch as it was very foul weather
| when the Pilgrim fathers struck that his
toric boulder.
| PA" asked young Jobly, what sort of
a tree was it that George Washington cut
| down with h is little hatchet-a cherryf"
Chestnut, my son" replied the old man,
absently; chestnut"
..What makes the girl walk funny?''
INQUIRED De Smythe of Brown. lis she
intoxicated?'' '.Oh, no, she's not intoxi-
Gated" responded Brown. Its only her
shoes that are tight"
Employer James, here is a dead let
ter for YOU from the Dead Letter Office. .
| James lin agony. ''Then it is from my
| son. He's been sick for weeks, and I've
been expectin this every day.
Mrs. Mulligan: And so you have nc
mother now? Motherless boy No, num-
Mrs Mulligan Well, my boy, whenever
YOU feel the want of good whipping
come to me, and I'll be a mother to you.
The moral effect of being well dressed
was shown in the answer of child who
was asked why she wasn't good like an